Summer 2017 issue of The Montlake Cut, a publication of the UW Medicine Department of Neurological Surgery. This issue includes articles on welcome new R-1s, Rajeev Sen, Maddie Greil and Guilherme Barros, welcome new faculty member, Anoop Patel, MD, Department of New Babies, Rich Ellenbogen is President of ASPN, Christine MacDonald’s new paper, “Early Clinical Predictors of 5-Year Outcome After Concussive Blast Traumatic Brain Injury,” Real Science, Real Results, 6th Annual Goodkin Lecture: Dr. Hunt Batjer, Neurosurgery names UW Neurological Surgery team article as Cerebrovascular Paper of the Year, Franck Kalume received two important grant awards for epilepsy research and Professor Morrison Wins New Grant.